How to Reduce Your Grocery Bill While Eating a Healthy Diet
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Is your grocery bill getting out of control while you try to eat a healthier diet? Here are 3 simple ways to cut back on your food costs without sacrificing your healthy diet.
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Here’s our question for today:
“I believe in the 80-20 rule for losing weight so I’m really focusing on improving my diet. I’m trying to pick healthier options and have noticed that my grocery bill is really growing. What do you do to keep your grocery bill in check?”
Great question Stephany. Just to start off I want to explain really quickly the 80-20 rule. When it comes to weight loss, quite often it’s said that 80% of losing weight is all about diet and 20% is about exercise. I’m a big proponent of that rule. I think maybe it’s more than 80-20. Maybe it’s 90-10 or 85-15, and I’ll put this in the resources for the show notes. If you visit my blog at MakeYourBodyWork.com you’re going to find a link to an article that I wrote that talks about eating versus exercise. It goes into all the reasons why the 80-20 rule is very true.
What I’d like you to do in particular is watch a video. There’s a video of two guys that are competing against each other in a race between running on a treadmill and eating pizza. The race is to see in 3 minutes who can consume or use up more calories. Without me even telling you the outcome of this you can probably imagine that the person who was eating the pizza, and I think he was washing it down with a root beer or some other sort of soda, consumed way more calories than the person on the treadmill was able to run. I believe the person eating pizza consumed about 800 calories and the guy on the treadmill who was running extremely fast for 3 minutes burned up only about 40 calories.
So the 80-20 rule is at least true. Like I said maybe even more. Maybe 90-10. The amount of food that we take in and the amount of calories that we take in through our mouth will always outdo the amount of exercise that we can perform. Cleaning up your diet, if you’re looking to lose weight, is crucial. But at the same time, eating healthy or clean eating has come under some fire from people saying that it gets really expensive and it’s unaffordable for some people. I’m going to give you my 3 best tips for eating healthy but cutting down on your grocery bill.
So tip number 1 for clean eating while cutting down your grocery bill is adopting meatless Monday. You’ve probably heard about that before. That’s a practice for people who are trying to reduce their meat intake. Instead of going vegetarian or cutting it out as much as they can, they say we’re going to eat no meat. You might think at first, well meatless Monday that’s only one day of the week. How much of a difference is that actually going to make in your monthly food bill. The answer is it actually makes a huge difference. There’s a study that shows that families of 4 who adopt a meatless Monday save about 30 dollars per week off their grocery bill. In a month that’s 120 dollar savings and over the course of the year that’s over 1,500 dollars in savings. The impact is really huge.
My one warning with the meatless Mondays approach is to be careful of what you’re replacing that meat with. I had a client a couple of years ago and during our intake process we got talking about her diet. She told me that she was a vegetarian. Typically this is good thing because vegetarians tend to be able to lose weight faster than those people who eat meat. However as we started talking about her diet, I asked her what sort of food she ate. I was a ton breads, a ton of pastas, a ton of processed foods and I quickly realized that to her being a vegetarian really meant not eating meat. Not necessarily eating vegetables. So for meatless Mondays, cutting out meat for 3 meals will lead to big savings, just make sure that the foods that you’re choosing to replace that meat with are high quality.
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